Contest!!! Ends Friday!!!

This is my first contest, so give me some slack! =)

Rules:
*Must be your own work.
*Must be new.
*No profanity.
*About anything you want.
*Pick one poem/title per person.

Titles:
1) Final Hope
2) Change the World [DONE]
3) Bittersweet [DONE]
4) Loved One [DONE]
5) Blissful Night [Reserved]
6) Only Chance
7) Broken Dreams [DONE]
8) Shattered [DONE]
9) Friendly Faces [Reserved]
10) Time [DONE]
11) Just Waiting [DONE]
12) Special Love [DONE]
13) Polished
14) Patient Soul
15) Harm's Way [DONE]

Prizes:
1st place: 8 r/r/c
2nd place: 5 r/r/c
3rd place: 3 r/r/c
H/M: 1 r/r/c

Get writing! =)

I am going to do Just waiting #11

Just Waiting

Sitting in a corner
Eyes wide open
Head against the wall
I am just waiting for you to come.

Up the stair case
And down the dark hall
Shadows poring in the room
As you open the door.

My smile has faded
My tears have come
Here I sit
I was just waiting for you to come.

Your face is hidden by
Darkness and despair
My fear has come
As I stood up
From my chair.

No longer will
I see the brightness
Of the sun
All has turn bleak
As I was waiting
For you to come.

Take me quick
Take me fast
No longer will
You haunt me
For now I will no longer
Wait for you to come.

Can I do bittersweet??

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Bittersweet

You brightened up
almost every single day
of the dark life I had
and the darkness you blew away

when the sun had made a smile
come upon my face
you were pretty statisfied
and for a while you stopped the chase

I took you for granted
and trusted you for every part
my soul I had handed
it to you and that wasn't even hard

but you betrayed me
that hurt me deep inside
and all of our memories that I see
are so bittersweet that I just want to hide

Hide beneath the surface
of a fake lost me
the person that because of you
was gone, and now carefree

but here she is now
back again
hiding from you
and our bittersweet memories

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Tine: Yes, you can do Bittersweet!

Residue of a Broken Soul: Just pick a title, and write a new poem of your own about it with that title. You can reserve a title if you wish, but the poem must be completed and turned in by friday.

Can I reserve shattered?

by Sarah

An Angel came one morning,
A visit he did pay.
That angel took my baby,
And tore my heart away.

So innocent was my baby,
An angel in my eye.
My baby didn't whimper,
Only gave a little sigh.

I truly love that baby,
More than words could ever say.
Lord, why did that angel come,
And take my baby away?

The answers, I will never know,
For it is your chosen way.
I know my baby's in heaven,
Safe in your arms, I pray.

Lord, help me to see that light,
So that I may understand.
And when I see my babe again,
It is in your promised land.

Hush my little angel
For I will hold your hand
You sleep so still and peacefully
A world beyond this land

Hush my little angel
They cannot touch you there
Another angel by your side
Deep within a prayer

Hush my little angel
No tear for you to cry
Far beyond this windswept world
An angels lullaby

We will be together Not
now but some day.
But I can put my mind at
ease you are out of harms way.

~Shattered~

Each jagged edge bares its own unique pattern.
Patterns that diminish, but are soon recreated.
Recreated with similar differences, but not the same,
for "same" is just a metaphor for the truly impossible.

For as each piece slips through the lucent air,
they are preparing for their second decent.
A decent much less abrupt than that of the first,
for the first decent was all that mattered.

Now, that which was once whole, is shattered,
with each rise and fall the pieces chip and settle.
Settle upon the ground where they lay terrified,
terrified to see their eternal bonds forever broken.

The noise of shattering dulls, a new sound emerges,
its pattern obvious to those who have fallen.
A shadow covers the remains of what used to be,
what used to hold God's most beautiful creation.

The shadow disappears, yet darkness remains,
the sound of a rain stick fills the empty room.
A quick silence, and a new melody fills the air,
the melody of a bag slowly filled with undesirable candy.

The tiny pieces left in the light are soon overwhelmed,
brushed under the stove where I stand exhausted.
No longer does my vase stand stocked with roses,
no longer is my apartment filled with their sweet aroma.

Watching the vase fall I realize our similarities,
analyzing each moment of its decent as my own.
The initial fall, instigated by that of a mere bump,
a slight mishap, with a devastating outcome.

~Too many times we let minuscule incidents rile us up. All too often these incidents escalate into something unmanageable. If we just chill out and go with the flow, major problems can be avoided. Unlike the vase, when we shatter the pieces are a whole lot easier to pick up. Don't leave your pieces lying out on the tiles, pick them up and put yourself back together. Life is too short to dwell on the past.~

~Sean Dohr~

Can I reserve Time

Loved One

you used to look at me
in a way that made me shiver
our eyes met and loved
in the swirling air around us

then one night, alone
togther as one we were
talking that changed to love
in the darkest of the dark

in the black of the rumble
the glances turned to touch
our hands pressed so close
searing with our love

now i await your lost love
those touches are far gone
and the glances sadly spare
where have you gone, loved one

*sigh* i had a poem written with hearttouching love which my computer decided to ignore when i posted. :(

RESERVE, FRIENDLY FACES

Time

Watch the pendulum swing
Moving golden specks
Hear it's music sing
Through time's fierce effect

An aging process indeed
Seeping through our veins
Planting it's unwanting seed
Time's unreversable chains

Knees and arms grow weak
Fragile mind grows on
Eyes are shady bleak
as life just rolls along

A friend helping to heal
or an enemy testing you
Crushing sensation you feel
What tactics can we do

To overcome this opponent
Dragging our live's down
Time becomes malevolent
Then we are all bound

reserve blissful night

can I please reserve special love?

12) special love

Special Love

There’s a burning in my heart,
A fire in my soul,
I’ve found the love of my life,
The man that makes me whole.

This man is a beautiful angel,
He is always by my side,
He has been there when I needed him,
He has held me when I’ve cried.

I thank God every day,
That I have a wonderful man,
Who doesn’t care what I look like,
And is proud of who I am.

Together we are flawless,
There is nothing we cannot do,
Our love together is special,
Our love for each other is true.

It's a Hiku

BLISSFUL NIGHT

walking silently
holding each other tightly
on this blissful night

hope you liked it
it isn't on my poem's list yet maybe l8r

is the contest over?

and the results...(drumroll)....

1st place- Shattered by Sean Dohr
2nd place- Harm's Way by Sarah
3rd place- Bittersweet by Tine
H.M.- Just Waiting by Jumping Bean

Thank you! i'll r/r/c as soon as i can... i'm leaving soon, so when i get back i'll probably do it. either that or on monday...

Thanks a lot for the pick!!! Great contest and participants!!!

Oh yay I got H.M.....WOOT WOOT!!! :D great job everyone

Thanks very much 2nd place wow. x